Doing It Right
Welcome, StikiPad
I’ve been playing around with the new hosted wiki service, StikiPad for a bit during their beta. They’ve recently launched and let me say - wow!
If you’ve ever used a wiki before, you know all too well how difficult and confusing they can be. They seem to have come out of the world of Linux, [...]
All for the cost of dinner
Steve Rubel pointed this story out:
Last Night Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsoft’s Platforms, Products and Services Division met with a small group of bloggers and technologists here in San Francisco for dinner. The purpose of the dinner was to have an open and broad general discussion about Microsoft, their products and strategies, and general issues [...]
Authenticity
Reading this article about brands creating actual content as a way to grab new consumers made me smile.
Companies are aiming for a more authentic connection than they could get by a product placement deal or with the standard promotional efforts around a Hollywood movie premiere. Instead, the documentary format allows the companies to immerse viewers [...]
Dilbert Blog
Dilbert creator Scott Adams is blogging… and it’s damn funny. Check out his great blog - I think you’ll find it hilarious too. I’m certainly adding it to my daily reads.
Interestingly, he seems to have a more formal relationship with TypePad from what I see. Anyone have any info on that?
Typepad downtime update mail
There’s doing it right, then there’s doing it spot on perfect. I just got this mail from Six Apart yesterday morning. If you wonder how to write messages to your customers/consumers when you screw up, here’s the template. Great work Six Apart!
Dear Jake,
Two weeks ago I wrote you to [...]
More Open Source Marketing
Firemonger is a project to "Help spread Firefox. Download this CD, burn it and give it to your friends and family".
The Firemonger project is an attempt to create a multilingual easy-to-use compilation CD with Firefox™,™ (more about Firefox) and the best extensions, themes and utilities. Both of these programs have been created through collaboration [...]
Yes, Remarkable.
I recently received a package from Conference Calls Unlimited that included a one page letter and an advance copy of Seth Godin’s new book The Big Moo.
The book is a collection of 33 quick case studies of people "doing it right".
And the letter from the CCU CEO is titled "Remarkable".
It says (any [...]
CivicSpace - More doing it right
How many times have you visited a corporate or “official” site and been told nothing but how wonderful the product/service is. There’s no comparison, no discussion of other competitors. In an old school business mindset, that would be craziness. If someone finds out that there’s competition, they might go elsewhere!
News flash: We all know that there’s [...]
Apress - Doing It Right
It’s easy to talk about those companies who don’t get it, or aren’t doing things like they should. There’s plenty of examples out there. But the good companies, the companies doing it right don’t often get as much attention as they should.
So in an effort to rectify that, I’ve added a new category to [...]
Macromedia keeps on impressing
On Monday morning, the tech world was a buzz with the news of the Adobe/Macromedia merger. As I’ve watched this unfold, I can’t say enough how impressed with Macromedia I am. They’re doing it right, and here’s a quick run down of the highlights:
Macromedia.com home page updated with nicely designed graphics on Monday morning announcing the [...]
